Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICS AND MATERIALS IN DESIGN
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 53-70Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10999-014-9289-3
Keywords
Unsymmetric; Finite element method; Petrov-Galerkin; Trefftz; 4-node; 8-node
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The unsymmetric finite element method employs compatible test functions but incompatible trial functions. The pertinent 8-node quadrilateral and 20-node hexahedron unsymmetric elements possess exceptional immunity to mesh distortion. It was noted later that they are not invariant and the proposed remedy is to formulate the element stiffness matrix in a local frame and then transform the matrix back to the global frame. In this paper, a more efficient approach will be proposed to secure the invariance. To our best knowledge, unsymmetric 4-node quadrilateral and 8-node hexahedron do not exist. They will be devised by using the Trefftz functions as the trial function. Numerical examples show that the two elements also possess exceptional immunity to mesh distortion with respect to other advanced elements of the same nodal configurations.
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